Barbara Heimlich is the former Vice President of Program Management and Research for Paragon Development. She was responsible for new product and new business development and planning through working with clients to determine their needs and objectives. Ms. Heimlich evaluated and facilitated the appropriate programs to meet client objectives; conducts primary and secondary research; was responsible for report generation; analysis and presentation. She planned and executed hundreds of unique programs and conducted independent research projects for a broad spectrum of clients for new business and new product development and planning. In her position with Paragon, an international consulting business, she supervised staff as large as 10 employees both full and part-time; developed research methodologies in primary market, technology, and business intelligence gathering.
Barbara has over twenty years' experience in problem solving, project management and value creation with considerable, documented bottom line results in highly competitive environments. She is experienced in Voice-of-Market™ facilitation, qualitative, and quantitative research in addition to the interpretation and implementations based on the knowledge created. Before joining Paragon, she was a senior program manager for 17 years with Innotech, a consulting firm specializing in new business development.
For 17 years, Renee Gill was Vice President of Accounting and Administration at Paragon Growth Services LLC/Paragon Development, a new business consulting firm. Her responsibilities included supporting program research, the experts, logistics and accounting. Renee also spend 2 years at Innotech before joining the Paragon team. She simultaneously was the Business Manager and a director of The Early Education Training Institute, Inc., a childcare consulting and staff training organization. Her work within the early care and education community over the past 30 years has been with early childhood development specialists, parents and children of all ages, colleagues, private and government organizations at conferences, task force meetings, and special projects. Renee's employment outside of the ECE field provided the opportunity to deal with businesses from small mom and pop shops to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries. In these roles she handled all aspects of accounting and logistics.